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InBev hands West Euro GC global corporate role

Drinks giant InBev has announced that Western Europe general counsel Deepak Malhotra is to lead its global corporate legal team as an extension of his current role. Malhotra will head up a combined legal team of 80 lawyers and support staff, although the two departments will remain separate. He takes on the role from Miren Aguirre, who has left the company.
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LSE clearing house names new general counsel

LCH Clearnet - the main clearing house of the London Stock Exchange - has named barrister Iona Levine as its new general counsel. Levine - the co-founder of niche finance set Minerva Chambers - will head up an in-house team of two lawyers and three support staff and report to chief executive Roger Liddell.
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HP names adviser Holsten as new general counsel

Hewlett Packard (HP) has named Morgan Lewis partner Michael Holsten - a long-term adviser of the computer giant - as its new general counsel. Holsten will be responsible for the company's global legal affairs, privacy and ethics matters and replaces former general counsel Ann Baskins, who left the company in September.
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Law firms braced as five top banks review panels

UK firms are gearing up for a surge of panel reviews by major financial institutions, with a number of Europe's biggest banks set to review their advisers in the coming months.
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Corporate Counsel: In Good Company

It is not every day that one of the City's leading M&A partners steps away from private practice to make the move in-house. John Davidson, a corporate partner at Lovells for more than 20 years, rocked the boat last May when he announced that he was moving in-house to become general counsel at longstanding client SABMiller.
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New EMI general counsel to launch in-house revamp

EMI is set to revamp its in-house legal team following the news that Chris Ancliff is taking on the top legal job at the music giant, replacing veteran general counsel Charles Ashcroft in the role. Ashcroft announced this week that he was to step down from the job after more than 10 years as group general counsel for health reasons, enabling him to concentrate solely on his duties as company secretary.
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In-house struggle to compete with law firms in hunt for specialist talent

Red tape and healthy commercial markets are driving major companies to stock up their legal teams, according to new research, with general counsel increasingly hunting for specialist lawyers to beef up their departments' capabilities.
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In-housers face struggle for specialist talent

Red tape and healthy commercial markets are driving major companies to stock up their legal teams, according to new Legal Week research, with general counsel increasingly hunting for specialist lawyers to beef up their capabilities.
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AOL halves Euro legal team in reshuffle

AOL has shed half of its 22-strong European legal team as it sells off the internet access side of its business to Neuf Cegetel in France, Carphone Warehouse in the UK and Telecom Italia in Germany.
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DLA Piper ups its game with City TMC hire

DLA Piper has bagged another new partner for its London arm as the transatlantic giant presses on with its expansion plans in the capital.Huw Roberts joins the firm as a partner in the technology, media and commercial (TMC) practice after a six-year spell in Monaco as general counsel to the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the world governing body for track and field athletics. Prior to moving in-house, Roberts, a regulatory and sports law specialist, worked as part of the litigation and arbitration practice at City giant Herbert Smith.
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